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When an employee does not have sufficient funds in the account for which he or she is responsible to receive a full paycheck, the employee incurs a "shortcheck" for the earnings that were not able to be paid. Short checked earnings are accrued and tracked by Reliant as "backpay" that an employee is eligible to receive in the event that he or she has excess funds in the account for which he or she is responsible in a pay period, after Reliant fully pays the current month's wages and payroll expenses. Reliant will generally compensate employees for back pay which has been acquired within the current year and past two years, subject to an employee fulfilling his or her obligation to raise the required amount of support for Reliant. See Toolbox for instructions on how to view backpay amounts.
- Primary backpay is paid (see Order of Pay) when there are sufficent funds after covering the employee benefits, direct charges to the MTD fund, primary's normal paycheck as well as their spouse's full paycheck in a dually employed situation.
- Spouse backpay is paid when there are sufficient funds after covering the employee benefits, direct charges to the MTD fund, primary's normal paycheck, the spouse's full paycheck, and the primary's entire remaining accumulated backpay.
- There is also an order of pay for backpay payments. Reliant pays the oldest tracked backpay (by year) first since there is a limited time of eligiblity. Accumulated backpay for both primary and spouse does expire and become ineligible to receive after the alloted time has passed.
Paystubs:
It will show up as SHORT CHECK on your original paystub to give you a total of how much you have been shorted on this check or year to date.
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The system will pay the oldest year of accumulated backpay first in the order of eligiblity of payment. Once the backpay that accumulated 2 years ago reaches the end of December payroll of that the now current year without being paid, it is no longer eligible to receive and will be removed from the system.
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